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OCEANGOING 1990

AUSTRALIA SKY

Product Tanker

Samsung Shipbuilding

The 33,000-dwt product tanker

Australia Sky, delivered by the Koje shipyard of Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., to

Caltex Petroleum Company (Aus- tralia) Pty., Ltd., is reportedly the first large tanker vessel fitted with a twin schilling rudder system. The

Industramar Vectwin Schilling

Rudder system provides the vessel with excellent maneuverability in such areas as small harbors and nar- row waterways, which are normally under tidal restrictions and offer limited tug assistance.

Designed to minimize operating costs, with such features as a bul- bous bow, automated main engine bridge maneuvering system, and a single 8,200 bhp (derated) Hyundai- built MAN B&W Diesel model 5S50MC main engine, the Australia

Sky carries product oil in eight pairs of tanks from the Australia coast to

New Zealand. She has double bot- tom and double hull construction and is divided into port and star- board tanks by a centerline longitu- dinal bulkhead.

The Australia Sky is manned by a complement of 26, with an overall length of 592 feet, molded breadth of 88 feet, molded depth of 54 feet and draft of 35 feet.

Some of the special features of- fered by the Vectwin Schilling Rud- der include full 360 degree control of speed and direction by use of a simple joystick control, excellent course keeping under manual or au- topilot control, remarkable control and turning ability at any ship's speed from full to zero, and report- edly markedly less vibration than for a conventional rudder system running astern.

Equipment List

Main engine . . . Hyundai-MAN B&W

Generator engine .... SSangyong-MAN B&W

Vectwin rudder . Industramar

Level gauge . . Saab

A/C plant . . . Flakt

Propeller .... Hyundai

Freshwater generator . . . . Nagase-Alfa-Laval

Purifier . . Nagase-Alfa-Laval

Satellite communication .... SAIT-EB

Gyrocompass/autopilot . . . Anschutz

Satellite navigator JRC

CAP POLONIO

Containership

Flender Werft

In the third quarter of this year

Flender Werft AG, Lubeck, Germa- ny, delivered the 33,000-dwt con- tainership Cap Polonio to the ship- ping group Hamburg-Sud-Ameri- kanische Dampfschiffahrtsgesell- schaft in Hamburg, Germany.

Employed worldwide in the ship- owners' liner service, the Cap Polon- io, with an overall length of 657 feet, molded breadth of about 105 feet, and draft of approximately 39 feet, (continued)

Selectees, from top page: Cruise ship Crown Princess, built by Fincantieri; cruise ship

Nordic Empress, from Cantiers de I'Atlantique; railferry Railship III, built by Schichau See- beckwerft; cruise liner Crystal Harmony, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; and (above) LPG carrier Jane Maersk, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. ''Mirnnnnnnwmim % t t I I IIIIIICIlllllllUUIIIIHlltllnimiinmitiimti "

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